Seven-time G1 winner Magical retired by Coolmore

After a stellar career with seven Group 1 wins and $6.2 million in earnings, Magical has been retired.

The 5-year-old daughter of Galileo will join the broodmare band at Coolmore Stud.

Owned by Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor, Magical had a career record of 28: 12-8-2 for trainer Aidan O'Brien.

Americans knew Magical best from her duel with Enable in the 2018 Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs. After getting within a head in the stretch, she settled for second, three-quarters of a length behind Enable.

During a remarkable seven-race stretch, she won the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) in September 2019, followed by a fifth-place finish in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) and then three straight Grade 1 scores — the British Champion Middle Distance, the Pretty Polly and the Tattersalls Gold Cup — a second in the Juddmonte International Stakes and a win in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1). She is only the second dual winner of the Irish Champion Stakes.

Magical wrapped up her career with a second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Turf in November and a third-place finish in the Hong Kong Cup (G1) in December.

“Her mum (Halfway To Heaven) was a queen, she was a queen and she was by Galileo, so I suppose you could call him the king,” O’Brien said in a news release from Coolmore. “It would be exciting to train her offspring.”

On the highlight of Magical’s illustrious career, he said, “The days that stand out are the Champion Stakes. She was amazing, she always turned up. She was tough, she was consistent and had a super mind and was very sound.”

Magical is one of two Group 1 winners bred by Coolmore out of top-class race mare Halfway To Heaven, herself a daughter of King’s Stand Stakes heroine Cassandra Go.